Playing with a Rock: While looking for a tool I had mislaid I found this rock, with nothing else to do I shot a few images. All three images are focus stacked, images 2#3 have 3mm an...

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

While looking for a tool I had mislaid I found this rock, with nothing else to do I shot a few images.
All three images are focus stacked, images 2#3 have 3mm an led inserted in a hole in the foam core back ground.
Last year I was doing a project where I need colored leds, I ended up with a lifetime supply of leds!!

15 image stack
15 image stack...

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Interesting, Frank.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Very creative Frank!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jaymatt wrote:

Interesting, Frank.

Thank you very much John

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

yssirk123 wrote:

Very creative Frank!

Thank you very much Bill

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Manglesphoto wrote:

While looking for a tool I had mislaid I found this rock, with nothing else to do I shot a few images.
All three images are focus stacked, images 2#3 have 3mm an led inserted in a hole in the foam core back ground.
Last year I was doing a project where I need colored leds, I ended up with a lifetime supply of leds!!

Rather interesting final results. I am curious, were you trying to create an "outer space" image depicting two planets? And you needed a focus stack to get both the rock and the LED in focus (as opposed to stopping your lens way down to say f/22 - the abstract look of the rock would not show diffraction).

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

lamiaceae wrote:

Rather interesting final results. I am curious, were you trying to create an "outer space" image depicting two planets? And you needed a focus stack to get both the rock and the LED in focus (as opposed to stopping your lens way down to say f/22 - the abstract look of the rock would not show diffraction).

Thank you very much Lamiaceae
I was just messing around
I always shoot with my lens stopped down and have never had any trouble with diffraction, these images were shot at f45

maxlieberman Loc: 19027

Manglesphoto wrote:

While looking for a tool I had mislaid I found this rock, with nothing else to do I shot a few images.
All three images are focus stacked, images 2#3 have 3mm an led inserted in a hole in the foam core back ground.
Last year I was doing a project where I need colored leds, I ended up with a lifetime supply of leds!!

Very interesting composition, Frank. I kept looking at it over and over again.

radiojohn

You may recall that while astrophysicists we praising some photos of extremely distant galaxies, some other scientist took an extreme macro shot of a slice of salami (?) that looked very similar.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Manglesphoto, This shows that we should not take all rocks for granite.😜

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Looks like a nice piece of granite.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Manglesphoto wrote:

Thank you very much Lamiaceae
I was just messing around
I always shoot with my lens stopped down and have never had any trouble with diffraction, these images were shot at f45

Personally, I have rarely if ever noticed any diffraction issues with my own images. What lens were you using that goes to f/45? I have film 4x5" View Camera lenses that go to f/45 or f/64, but for my 35mm film and digital cameras only macro lenses to f/32.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Nicely thought out, Frank.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

sippyjug104 wrote:

Manglesphoto, This shows that we should not take all rocks for granite.😜

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

sippyjug104 wrote:

Manglesphoto, This shows that we should not take all rocks for granite.😜

LOL
But it is Granite